# Can someone explain how Disney has outmanuevered DeSantis via Charles III's descendants? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [March 30, 2023, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-explain-how-disney-has-outmanuevered-desantis-via-charles-iiis-descendants/981880 "2023-03-30T13:48:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2023, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-explain-how-disney-has-outmanuevered-desantis-via-charles-iiis-descendants/981880/121 "2023-05-18T20:00:26Z")
**You wanna pick a fight with the Mouse? You feel lucky, Ronny?** Disney cancels $1 billion dollar expansion; cancels plan to move a division from California to Florida; approximately 2,000 jobs involved; average salary of workers was to be around $120,000. > “Does the state want us to invest more, employ more people, and pay more taxes, or not?” Robert A. Iger, Disney’s chief executive, said on an earnings-related conference call with analysts last week. > **[Disney Pulls Plug on $1 Billion Development in Florida](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/18/business/disney-ron-desantis-florida.html)** > > A new office complex, and relocation of a division from California, would have created more than 2,000 jobs but was scuttled as the company and Gov. Ron DeSantis continue to feud. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2023, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-explain-how-disney-has-outmanuevered-desantis-via-charles-iiis-descendants/981880/122 "2023-05-19T11:24:35Z")
DeSantis presumably has lots to do besides “fight woke” and Disney. Disney has lots of lawyers and such whose only job is to look out for Disney. He’d lose the fight. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2023, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-explain-how-disney-has-outmanuevered-desantis-via-charles-iiis-descendants/981880/123 "2023-05-20T15:31:12Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > **You wanna pick a fight with the Mouse? You feel lucky, Ronny?** Personally…I find it weird to be rooting for Disney. A company I consider a prime example of an evil, soulless company that has made our country worse. But DeSantis and his ilk are so much worse I’m rooting for the evil mouse. Strange times we live in. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2023, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-explain-how-disney-has-outmanuevered-desantis-via-charles-iiis-descendants/981880/124 "2023-05-20T15:32:16Z")
The enemy of my enemy is my temporary ally. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2023, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-explain-how-disney-has-outmanuevered-desantis-via-charles-iiis-descendants/981880/125 "2023-05-20T15:34:58Z")
Maxim 29. Strange times indeed. I make no secret of the fact that I regard Disney as a manifestation of Pure Evil, and all my students know it. So when we talk about what is going on in Florida, having me take the side of Disney is rather _concerning_ to them. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2023, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-explain-how-disney-has-outmanuevered-desantis-via-charles-iiis-descendants/981880/126 "2023-05-20T15:36:53Z")
You could tell them you’re rooting for injuries. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2023, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-explain-how-disney-has-outmanuevered-desantis-via-charles-iiis-descendants/981880/127 "2023-05-20T16:55:55Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > Personally…I find it weird to be rooting for Disney. A company I consider a prime example of an evil, soulless company that has made our country worse. > > But DeSantis and his ilk are so much worse I’m rooting for the evil mouse. > > Strange times we live in. Yeah. I hate Disney. But they happen to be on the right side this time. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2023, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-explain-how-disney-has-outmanuevered-desantis-via-charles-iiis-descendants/981880/128 "2023-05-20T17:10:17Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > The enemy of my enemy is my temporary ally. …as the dog said to the mouse. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2023, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-explain-how-disney-has-outmanuevered-desantis-via-charles-iiis-descendants/981880/129 "2023-05-24T10:11:14Z")
It’s a real _Hitler or Stalin_ conundrum. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2023, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-explain-how-disney-has-outmanuevered-desantis-via-charles-iiis-descendants/981880/130 "2023-06-20T02:22:49Z")
My Google-fu is failing me, but wasn’t there either a Straight Dope column or a Staff Report about how Disney World attractions like Space Mountain would be impossible without special variances from the county and state governments? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-explain-how-disney-has-outmanuevered-desantis-via-charles-iiis-descendants/981880.md?page=6)